I love when my day job puts me on to dope songs/videos and this one came to my attention today. Peep Courtney John’s “Lucky Man” for that classic Roots meets Motown feel…perfect record to close out the summer in the next month or so. Rock to it.
Shout to the homey Noah for the heads up.
If you missed the World Championships in Berlin over the weekend, here’s the final of the Men’s 100m Sprint, where Usain Bolt took 9.58 seconds to prove yet again that he’s the fastest man that has ever lived. Are you serious? He makes it look so easy too…it’s really unbelievable. Great commentary from the BBC host as well:
There are adjectives that are inadequate to describe this man. He is brilliant beyond compare. We have seen nothing like this ever, ever. He writes his own history with every stride that he takes.
How strange/perfect is it that the fastest man alive has the last name ‘Bolt’? Destiny.
Yes y’all, back once again with the latest edition of SNSS. The recession might be wreaking havoc throughout the economic sector and causing layoffs like crazy (even at our parent company), but we just keep it moving steadily towards show #200 and our 4 year anniversary. Imagine that. We’ve been on the air longer than some of y’all went to college. Zing.
On this week’s show, J returned from his trip to JamRock and regaled us with tales that will make everyone in the NW remember why our winters suck. Musically, we dipped across genres and played joints from Q-Tip, Jazzanova, Passion Pit, Jay-Z, Shad, Adele, Common, and more. Plus we had one of our strongest lineups for local music with tracks from the Blue Scholars, Dyme Def, and Framework. Just to top it off, we debuted Convinced’s “Mass Appeal 2009 (Remix)” a few hours before it hit the blogosphere. Good times & good music. It’s what we do.
Show #191 (1-25-09)
- Q-Tip – “Won’t Trade”
- The Knux – “Fire”
- MF Doom – “Genuine Ballskin”
- Jadakiss – “Can’t Stop Me”
- Dyme Def – “Cheers” (Local Artist)
- Termanology – “Circulate Freestyle (100 Bars)”
- Shad – “Nowadays”
- Jay-Z ft. Santogold – “Brooklyn Go Hard (DJ Green Lantern Remix)”
- Evidence ft. Alchemist & Fashawn – “Far Left”
- Jay Electronica ft. Che Grand – “Hagler”
- Framework – “The Route We Chose” (Local Artist)
- Common ft. Chester French – “What A World”
- Passion Pit – “Sleepyhead”
- Anjulie – “Boom”
- Adele ft. Naledge (of Kidz In The Hall) – “First Love (Remot Remix)”
- Blu – “Vanity (DeathOfAStar) pt.One”
- Blue Scholars – “Coffee & Snow” (Local Artist)
- Inverse – “Rise & Shine”
- Convinced ft. Shawn Jackson, Tunji (of Inverse), & El Prez – “Mass Appeal 2009 (Remix)” (WORLD PREMIERE)
- Focus ft. Royce The 5’9”, Phonte (of Little Brother), & Stat Quo – “Homage To Premier”
- El Prez – “Hammerman”
- Colin Munroe ft. Joell Ortiz – “Piano Lessons”
- Blaq Poet – “Ain’t Nuttin’ Changed”
- Jazzanova ft. Phonte (of Little Brother) – “Look What You’re Doin’ To Me”
- Kanye West – “Street Lights”
Link to download the mp3 – http://www.mediafire.com/?m2m5dtht4o0
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/547246749228a555/ )
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Kardi hinted at this video at the end of the clip for “Numba 1,” and now the visuals for “Nina” are here. When you have a song as good as this one, you don’t really need anything fancy for the video to turn out dope. Plus, I’m not mad at that girl in the car at all.
Swiped from OnSmash.
(chyea @ the Usain Bolt pose at 1:45)
This is the third incarnation of this song, as the initial leaked version featured the Pussycat Dolls, the album track featured Rihanna, and now the video features Keri Hilson. To be honest, I can’t really pick one of those over the other, since they all do a decent job. The best part of this song is clearly Kardi and his energy, and the video does a great job capturing what one of his live shows is like. Dropping videos like this in October just isn’t fair though. The weather is starting to get awful and [Biggie] I swear to God sometimes it feels like death Jamaica is callin’ me [/Big].
Huge shout to Kardi and the Black Jays fam, especially for tossing my favorite track off of Not 4 Sale, “Nina,” at the end of the clip. Video courtesy of OnSmash.
Kardinal Offishall sits down with Angie Martinez, DJ Enuff, and Cipha Sounds at Hot 97 in New York. The interview happened right after Usain Bolt’s domination, and since Kardi has Jamaican roots, you know he was proud. They also talk a little about his upcoming Not 4 Sale album and his trademark yell. After the jump, peep Kardi talk about his favorite MC of all time.
Swiped from Shakezilla.
I’m in the middle of a real busy weekend, but I had to take a second to post about Usain Bolt’s electrifying (yes pun) performance in the men’s 100m sprint yesterday. It wasn’t even that he broke his own world record (from 9.72 down to 9.69), but it was how effortlessly he ran all throughout the competition. He won every qualifying heat so easily that he actually let up with 30 meters left each time. When the final came, everyone anticipated that he’d finally have to run the full race at top speed.
[Charlie Murphy] wrong…WRONG. [/Charlie Murphy]
From the start of the race, it was clear that Bolt was surpremely confident. He bounced around and struck poses before getting in the blocks. While everyone else wore hi-tech singlets, hoping to shave every possible split second off their time, Usain rocked some shorts and a normal little tank top. Oh, and his left shoe was untied:
(are you kidding me?)
After a decent start and first 40 meters, Bolt turned it on and absolutely blew out his competition. So much so that he let up again, this time throwing his arms out and beating his chest in celebration, a good 20 meters before the finish line:
As the 7 other fastest people on the planet strained towards the line, Bolt glided past it and continued on into his victory lap. In between talking with his family and grabbing a Jamaican flag to show off to the world, he danced and broke out the classic ‘airplane’ move:
Again, it wasn’t just that he ran 100 meters faster than any human in history. It’s that he did it so easily and so relaxed, almost as if it was a mere formality. Apparently, it was. Truly, a display for the ages and one worthy of instant inauguration to the Swag Hall of Fame.
Looking at the pictures doesn’t do it justice, but thanks to NBC’s draconian restrictions on archived video from the Games, you’ll have to watch it on their site here. If you’re outside the US, NBC hates you and you’ll have to find it on your local Olympics carrier instead. Their coverage has been pretty good (aside from Bob Costas repeatedly mispronouncing Beijing), but the lack of archived video is killing me. In any case, find a way to watch the race and look out for Bolt running his real specialty in the 200m. This dude is unreal.
Also, some guy named Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal over the weekend. Yeah…that was kind of cool too. The Olympics are incredible!
